The wildflower garden at the bottom of St Ethelwold’s Garden is starting to bloom with Honesty.

There are honey bees and bumble bees in the garden, as well as a good variety of flowers. The bumble bee is getting stuck into a willow catkin for some pollen, so it is not just the flowers that have pollen.

There are lots of grape hyacinths.

Blossoms grow against a wall on an espalier.

There are hundreds of tulips coming up at the moment, and April will look magnificent, but my best picture was of a single tulip.

At the bottom of the garden is a Clematis ‘snowdrift’ with a drift star like flowers. Their long narrow leaves are evergreen and leathery.

I did not do that well photographing the birds this month, but on one hedge, saw a sparrow-like bird. The resulting picture has a strange blurred 3-D quality. Correct me if I’m wrong but it may be a Dunnock, also known as a ‘hedge sparrow’ which is not really a sparrow.